Brilliantology

22 Jun 2008

Comments Tagged: music

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Nine Inch Nails - 14 Ghosts II

One of the standouts in a staggeringly beautiful collection of instrumentals. I keep slipping this track onto repeat this evening. I still can’t believe I only paid $5 for this album.

9 Jun 2008

Reblogged from peroty Comments Tagged: music

“His last Interscope album, “Year Zero,” used its $2 million budget to go further, extending its vision of a dystopian future to elaborately linked materials online and off- for fans to find and decode. Mr. Reznor has been working with Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino’s longtime producing partner, to create a cable TV series to tell the entire story.”

Music - Trent Reznor’s Frustration and Fury - Take It. It’s Free. - NYTimes.com

This could be very exciting. (-peroty)

Yes… very exciting indeed!

8 May 2008

Comments Tagged: music

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Nine Inch Nails - Lights In The Sky

Track 7 on the new free album The Slip reminds me of albums Still and certain parts of The Fragile. Barely audible vocals and the loud, lonely, piano… It’s a thing of beauty.

Unfortunately, having listened to it a fair few times since it was released, The Slip itself isn’t great. It’s not a cohesive album, more a loose collection of songs that sound like they didn’t make it into the last few commercial releases. Still, there are gems there (Discipline, Echoplex, Corona Radiata and Lights In The Sky in particular) and I’ve found my key to enjoying them all is to tweak my NIN playlists so these songs slot in alongside tracks of similar feel.

I can’t really complain though - it’s free!